Rene G. Cepeda

Tag: museums

  • What is Art?

    What is Art?

      The more semesters I teach, the more I come across this question from my students, and it seems to be asked mostly by art historians and artists. The fact that students in their sixth semester are asking this question is, if nothing else it is interesting that so far into their career, students are…

  • A reaction to Nick Poole’s piece: Culture must always be a Commons

    A reaction to Nick Poole’s piece: Culture must always be a Commons

    As I read Culture must always be a commons, I started thinking of several issues I ran into when writing my Masters Thesis. The most important being Copyright; For a long time copyright existed as a way to ensure artists had a steady income so they could continue to produce art, however,

  • Mobile Apps in the Modern Museum

    Today I will talk about Mobile Apps in museums. First I will address the issues that hamper their implementation and then approach the posibilites finalizing with my “ideal” museum app for a world art museum.

  • A great example of unrelated technology assisting Museums

    Sometimes due to lack of resources, distances, expenses or many other factors, we find our work limited in certain ways. This is where enterprising minds find alternate ways to achieve results. While this example is used to plan ahead the lighting of a photography, other technologies can be used to assist museums in planning exhibitions, or even…

  • Newton’s papers: another step towards the digital museum

    4000 pages of Isaac Newton’s journals have been made available in digital form by the University of Cambridge. While the interface could be a bit friendlier and more familiar, this is an amazing step in to the creation of a true digital museum. For the first time people from around the world have access to…

  • The Age of Reality Is Over

    With this new advancement all our concerns about authenticity and what is real have taken a new hit. We are now creating humans in the real world, and not only that, but people didn’t know about it for ages. For all effects and purposes this woman was real to the observer. What is the relation…